Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to information collected or submitted on the Hammersmith Society website at hammersmithsociety.org.uk

Our webserver is not set up to generally track, collect or distribute personal information about its visitors. It does however recognise the IP address of visitors, but not email addresses. For example, we can tell which Internet Service Provider visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the particular visitors to our sites. This information is used only for internal purposes. For example, we compile statistics that show the daily number of visitors to the site, the daily requests we receive for particular pages or files on our web site, what countries those requests come from, and the browser type and computer/tablet/phone type used.  We may use 3rd party analytics services to help us analyse this information which requires us to provide such data to them.

If you apply for membership on this site, data entered is forwarded to us by email, but not stored on the website.

If you search for something on the site, we may log the search terms used.  Similarly, if you use a search engine such as Google to find our site, we may be able to tell what terms you were searching for.

These aggregated statistics are used to better provide services to the members and may also be provided to others, but the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

How we use “cookies”

A so-called ‘Cookie’ is a piece of text asking permission to be placed in your device’s memory or hard drive. If you agree, then your browser saves the text in a small file.  Technical cookies make the site work properly, but do not track or identify you.

Our content management system itself does not use cookies, except in the following circumstances:

• To remember your details if you choose to make a comment on the site. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. There is a specific option to enable this feature, as your personal choice.
• If you use the font resizer (AAA), it remembers the setting for your convenience, using a technical cookie.

• We occasionally use popup announcements which use a technical cookie to prevent you from being annoyed by repeated popups at each visit.  This can result in cookies being saved for an extended period of time. These are non-tracking cookies used only by our popups.

• Please review the sections on Third Parties and Security below as these may involve other cookies.

You may set your web browser to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contain cookies; those files are stored as part of your Internet browser under the domain hammersmithsociety.org.uk

Third party content and services

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. articles, images, videos etc.) from third parties, such as social media websites. Embedded content from such websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the third party website itself.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.  Any cookies used will appear under the name of the 3rd party.

We may redirect you to an external website such as a payment processor for subscription payments or donations (for example Paypal), but we do not process payments on our website or collect payment information directly from the website. 

Security and Encryption

This website does not enforce encryption on you, because it performs measurably faster without.  Currently there are no pages requiring encryption, or where encryption would be significantly beneficial.  However, if you choose, you may use a fully encrypted version of this website, by going to https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk. Please note that using the encrypted site requires additional non-tracking technical cookies to maintain the secure connection.

Email news updates

Periodically we send news updates to our member’s registered email addresses.  These may be personalised to each member, so that we can better identify which news stories members choose to read, allowing the society to better understand the interests and concerns of the membership.  You may “unsubscribe” from these emails using the link provided at the bottom of each email, or by contacting the membership secretary.

The Way We Use Information

WE DO NOT SELL, TRADE, EXCHANGE OR OTHERWISE MAKE AVAILABLE ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION TO ANY OTHER COMPANY OR ORGANISATION, except where it is explicitly stated that information may be shared.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Rights over your data

If you have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contact

Please contact the webmaster for privacy issues related to this website.